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I’m Allison Hunt, I was born and raised here in Louisville, Kentucky and I obtained
my Masters of Arts and Teaching degree from the University of Louisville in 2001.
I didn’t want like an online sort of program, I wanted an in-person program and UofL offered that.
And I also already knew a few people that had gone through the program and so knowing
other people that had gone through the program and it being a classroom-based program
with a lot of hours out in classrooms within Jefferson County made a big difference.
I have consistently high expectations for my students and I am very passionate about the course content.
I also tend to have very strong relationships with my students.
I enjoy highschoolers; they, in so many ways to me, are refreshing.
I teach freshman, they’re still in kind of that middle school very blunt mindset; you know they’ll just say
I teach freshman, they’re still in kind of that middle school very blunt mindset; you know they’ll just say
whatever they’re thinking without it being filtered and that
provides us an honest look at these important issues too.
So in terms of winning the award, I’d say when they announced my name, shocked and then also honored.
I represent a lot of teachers across the state of Kentucky
who are doing the same things I’m doing in the classroom.
So I was just fortunate enough to be the one selected for High School Teacher of the Year.
But if I look around, a lot of my colleagues here in this building and across the country
are models that I use constantly, that I share resources with and they also obtain resources
so the fact that I can be a representative of them made me feel very honored and appreciated.